Any word what will happen to their 9mm thick Kuro Concept design?????

It is such a shame for them to stop production on these!

They are going to start selling LCDs by getting Sharp to make their LCD panels. They CLAIM they are going to supply Sharp with their "Kuro" techonology that made their plasmas so famous. IF Sharp can make "Pioneer" LCDs with "Kuro" quality, won't Sharp also be selling the same LCDs? Why not just see who has the cheapest LCD?

Of course pioneer quit manufacturing.
The quality of the cheapest TV's outperform the expectations of the average viewer... if you need quality in anything these days you are officially a member of a very tiny minority group, unfortunately, one not worth producing for on a mass scale.

You'll still get your quality TV's, they'll just be harder to find and cost you an arm and both legs.

Of course, you could make one yourself for less money, but isn't that they way with nearly everything now?

Shame. Pioneer made some of the best plasma screens out there. Unfortunately most people can't even tell an 8-bit panel from a 6-bit one, so the cheaper, crappy models dominate the market.


Pioneer is closing their in-house manufacturing plant/s. ie. they will stop making, MAKING stuff.

Merely reselling someone else's hardware does not make everything even-steven.

I think the article title is right on target.



From what I've read they're going to stop manufacturing the panels, not plasmas alltogether. They'll buy panels from Panasonic since it'll be cheaper, but everything else will be Pioneer's engineering.

Pioneer have not quit the Plasma business at all, they have decided to outsource the manufacture of their panels to Panasonic and Hitachi but WILL still be selling plasma screens with the Pioneer brand on them.

I think this article needs re-phrasing slightly.